What Happened In January 2003 In History

Historical Events for January, 2003

• 8th » Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
• 8th » US Airways Express Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
• 16th » The Space Shuttle Columbia or Space Shuttle 'Columbia' takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. 'Columbia' disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
• 21st » A 7.6 magnitude 2003 Colima earthquake known as earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless.
• 23rd » Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10.
• 24th » The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
• 25th » 2003 Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to Human shield action to Iraq serve as human shields, intending to prevent the United States U.S.-led coalition of the willing coalition troops from bombing certain locati
• 27th » The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.
• 31st » The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.

Famous Deaths for January 2003

• 1st » Joe Foss, American pilot, politician, and broadcaster, 20th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1915)
• 1st » Dumitru Tinu, Romanian journalist (b. 1940)
• 1st » Royce D. Applegate, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1939)
• 3rd » Sid Gillman, American football player and coach (b. 1911)
• 4th » Hanno Drechsler, German politician, List of mayors of Marburg known as Mayor of Marburg (b. 1931)
• 4th » Conrad Hall, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
• 4th » Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-English violinist (b. 1923)
• 4th » Sabine Ulibarrí, American poet and critic (b. 1919)
• 5th » Doreen Carwithen, English composer (b. 1922)
• 5th » Massimo Girotti, Italian actor (b. 1918)
• 5th » Roy Jenkins, Welsh politician (b. 1920)
• 5th » Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923)
• 6th » Hirini Melbourne, New Zealand singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1949)
• 8th » Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (b. 1925)
• 9th » Will McDonough, American journalist (b. 1935)
• 12th » Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (b. 1912)
• 12th » Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 12th » Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine general and politician, 44th President of Argentina (b. 1926)
• 12th » Maurice Gibb, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Bee Gees) (b. 1949)
• 12th » Alan Nunn May, English physicist and spy (b. 1911)
• 13th » Norman Panama, American screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
• 14th » Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (b. 1902)
• 15th » Doris Fisher (singer) known as Doris Fisher, American singer-songwriter (b. 1915)
• 16th » Richard Wainwright (politician) named Richard Wainwright, English politician (b. 1918)
• 17th » Richard Crenna, American actor (b. 1926)
• 17th » Balint Vazsonyi, Hungarian pianist (b. 1936)
• 18th » Ed Farhat, American wrestler (b. 1924)
• 18th » Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (b. 1907)
• 19th » Milton Flores, Honduran footballer (b. 1974)
• 19th » Françoise Giroud, French journalist, screenwriter, and politician (b. 1916)
• 20th » Al Hirschfeld, American illustrator (b. 1903)
• 20th » Craig Kelly (snowboarder) e.g Craig Kelly, American snowboarder (b. 1966)
• 20th » Nedra Volz, American actress (b. 1908)
• 20th » Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947)
• 20th » David Battley, English comic actor (b. 1935)
• 21st » Paul Haines (poet) named Paul Haines, American-Canadian poet (b. 1933)
• 21st » Paul Kuusberg, Estonian author (b. 1916)
• 22nd » Bill Mauldin, American cartoonist (b. 1921)
• 23rd » Nell Carter, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 24th » Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (b. 1921)
• 25th » Sheldon Reynolds (producer) named Sheldon Reynolds, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
• 25th » Samuel Weems, American lawyer and author (b. 1936)
• 26th » Valeriy Brumel, Russian high jumper (b. 1942)
• 26th » Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian (b. 1917)
• 26th » George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (b. 1931)
• 27th » Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (b. 1915)
• 27th » Henryk Jabłoński, Polish politician, President of Poland (b. 1909)
• 28th » Mieke Pullen, Dutch runner (b. 1957)
• 29th » Frank Moss (politician) e.g Frank Moss, American lawyer and politician (b. 1911)

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